FLUORIDES

In India the predominant method of coping with the decay tooth has been to treat rather than to prevent the disease(an effort which has obviously failed since dental decay is on the increase.) The enormity of this problem gets exaggerated due to poor dentist-population ratio(1:37,000).Therefore it is very clear that the answer to this problem is prevention for which armamentarium are numerous but the most important are judicious use of systematic & tropical fluorides.

So barring the endemic fluoride belts people living in other regions are recommended to use fluoride tooth paste.

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